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If it wasn't in an encyclopedia, you just trusted word of mouth. (startrek.website)

submitted 7 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

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[–] MistakenBear32@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I had a set of encyclopedias before the internet... They were 20 years older than me though and it wasn't until I was at least 10 or so probably before I started consulting them for school... Lol

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yep. I was in elementary school in the 80s, so, of course, all of their encyclopedias were from the early 70s and had all kinds of out-of-date information.

Wikipedia may be untrustworthy at times, but at least they try to keep things up to date if there's a major change- like a country no longer exists- the encyclopedias and our globe both showed Vietnam as a divided country.

[–] Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Wikipedia updates to use the past tense within seconds of a celebrity death, I trust them to keep up with most stuff.